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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Appropriate use"”.
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The Appropriate Use of Human Intelligence in Combating Terrorism
When we looked at different issues in terrorism such as definitions, descriptions and motivations, groups and supporters, tactics, strategies, and victims of terrorists and terrorist activities, we see that terrorism is an issue that can occur at any time, and in any place, and it seems that the …
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Accountable systems : enabling appropriate use of information on the Web
… In this 'Accountable' architecture, information use is tracked from its creation through its modification, repurposing and republishing with the help of the 'Provenance Tracking Network', a decentralized network of peers that together record the rules governing resources on the Web, coupled with …
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The influence of situational interest on the appropriate use of cognitive learning strategies
… significance, as predictors of the adequate use of three types of cognitive learning strategies (rehearsal strategies, organizational strategies, and elaboration strategies). In order to attain this goal, it introduces a new measure of the adequacy of the use of cognitive learning strategies …
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Restraint and seclusion in American public schools: developing principles of appropriate use and identifying corresponding legal provisions.
… settings, this study proposes 14 principles of appropriate use for those practices. These principles were developed from the research literature and from the results of six interviews of school-based practitioners who have extensive experience with addressing restraint and seclusion use in their …
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Patterns of Plagiarism Behavior in the ESL Classroom and the Effectiveness of Instruction in Appropriate Use of Sources
… in their essays. After receiving instruction in appropriate source use, students' plagiarism behavior changed in the following ways. They included more source use in their post-diagnostic essays, reduced the percentage of plagiarism and undocumented source use, and incorporated a variety of …
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Research, development, and validation of a school leader's resource guide for the facilitation of social media use by school staff
… and responsibilities to facilitate social media use by their staff in P-12 education. This dissertation was designed to research, develop, and validate a resource guide school leaders can use to facilitate social media use by school staff. Research, Development, and Validation of a School …
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Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) testing at Groote Schuur Hospital: Adherence to indications for testing
Appropriate use of laboratory investigations is increasingly important in resource-constrained environments. We receive the anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) testing practices in a tertiary hospital in South Africa.
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Precision Motion Control of Electrohydraulic Actuators
… performance for the reference trajectories. The appropriate use of variable sampling interval further improves the tracking performance.
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Exchange Rate Indexation and Stabilization Policies in Colombia: 1975-1980
… resulted in controversies over its appropriate use. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the exchange rate policy pursued by Colombia during the 1975-1980 coffee boom.
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Market Response to Food and Drug Administration's Safety Warnings: a Case Study Using an Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Medicare Database for 2006-2008
… for thiazolidinediones were classified into appropriate-use, at risk, and contraindicated groups based on certain comorbid conditions. We assessed the effects of the May 2007 FDA safety warning about an ongoing safety review of rosiglitazone's potential to increase cardiovascular risks on …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… This dissertation attempts to account for the use of such referring expressions in Chinese, based on Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's (1993) Givenness Hierarchy, and compares the discourse use of Chinese referring expressions with those of English. The Givenness Hierarchy is given below: THE …
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An exploration of parametric versus nonparametric statistics in occupational therapy clinical research
… often do not meet assumptions necessary for appropriate use of parametric statistics (Lezak and Gray, 1984). When assumptions underlying the use of the parametric tests are violated or cannot be documented, the power of the parametric test may be invalidated and consequently, the significance …
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The french connection: a pedagogical analysis of the trombone solo literature of the Paris Conservatory
… Ballade, addressing technical challenges and appropriate use in the developing trombone player’s course of study
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The Accidental Place: Louis Armstrong Park Out of Place on the North Side
… of the Treme neighborhood, is the park an appropriate use of land, and what are the prospects for the park's future? This thesis examines the cultural gumbo of New Orleans history, explores the early days of Louis Armstrong and the development of jazz, sets the record straight by …
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Application of cost benefit analysis to the expanded food and nutrition education program
… education, and nutrition is presented. CBA for use in the Cooperative Extension Service Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is then systematically examined using the following criteria: 1) theoretical considerations - can the economic criterion appropriately be applied to …
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The effects of using motion detector technology to develop conceptual understanding of functions through dynamic representation in grade 6 students
… results of the research project showed that an appropriate use of motion detector technology did have a positive effect on the students' conceptual understanding of functional relationships between independent and dependent variables as well as the general mathematical notion of function.
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Fine-grained fault-tolerance : reliability as a fungible resource
… resources. Surprisingly, we find that an appropriate use of structured redundancy could lead to more efficient components. The performance of a fine-grained multiplexed design can indeed be systematically evaluated in terms of resource savings and reliability improvement. This analysis is …
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A Preschool Outdoor Curriculum and Playground Design, Teacher Education
… upon current research. Play value, development appropriateness and safety were considered in developing playground designs and curriculum. Evaluation of the curriculum and playground will be measured through assessments of the individual child, the class, and the staff. Numerous approaches to …
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Anaphoric reference in oral narratives of 6- and 7-year-old children
… 6- to 7-year-old children's ability to use anaphoric pronominal reference in oral narratives. For frequency of anaphoric pronoun use, there appears to be a significant difference between child and adult performance. Although children and adults generally refer to the same categories of …
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Best Practices In Online Pedagogy: A Pearson Correlation Analysis Between Teaching Evaluation Scores And Transactional Distance Scores In Online Graduate Courses
… Interpersonal Interaction</em>, and the <em>Appropriate Use of Video or Multimedia</em>. The researcher modified these best practices from the Jaggars and Xu (2016) <em>Online Course Quality Rubric</em>. The study utilized Dr. Michael G. Moore’s (1973) theory of transactional distance to …
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